"Lew pije."
Translation:A lion is drinking.
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The first name Lew is not unheard of:
Lew pije - Lew drinks/ Lew is drinking
Why not "a lion drinks". We don't know what he drinks and when he drinks.
[A/The] lion [drinks/is drinking] - all of those four variants are accepted, your answer should have worked.
Do you mean you literally wrote two words: "lion drinks"? Well, that is not a grammatically correct sentence.
Ok I get that part, I forgot the a, but my friend is polish and I showed her and she said that mine wasn't really wrong either. So just to clarify, Lew means A lion? It doesn't just mean Lion?
In such a sentence, 'lew' can mean either 'a lion' or 'the lion'. If you omit the article, the English sentence will mean "Someone named Lion drinks." And the Polish translation of that will be "Lion pije.", since this counts as a foreign name and we don't translate those.
So, to recap, in case you meant an actual lion, your sentence was ungrammatical and therefore rejected. In case you meant "someone named Lion", your sentence was grammatically correct, but not a correct translation of "Lew pije.".
Oh ok, that makes sense, thanks for the help. I'm sure I'll get it all eventually.. or atleast I hope I will haha
That's not a grammatical English sentence. You need "A/The lion is drinking".
Why "the lion is drinking" isn't correct? Or how do i speak about a spesific lion in my sample?
As of yet, In the lessons, we are taught about continuous tense "drinking or eating". However I haven't encountered learning about "drinks or eats" which means in general. Any particular reason? How can I learn the same?
Well, most sentences like "On je kanapkę" make a lot more sense in Present Continuous, Present Simple "He eats a sandwich" is accepted, but rather strange. In general Present Continuous seems to make sense more often until words like "always", "usually" etc. are introduced.
But 99% of the Polish verbs (the exceptions are verbs of motion, like to go/to be going) work both for Present Simple and Present Continuous. So "Lew pije" is "[The/A] lion [drinks/is drinking]".
There are also several so-called habitual verbs (for "to drink" it's "pijać") which would work only for Present Simple, but they are not in scope of this course and you can easily use the basic ones.
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Przepraszam, że tak narzekam:) Aplikacja - super!
